Obama Sending Iowa's Leach to Economic Summit!
by Julianna Goldman, Bloomberg.com
Barack Obama's transition team announced former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Representative Jim Leach will represent the president-elect at the international economic summit in Washington.Albright and Leach will be available for “unofficial meetings” with representatives of industrial and emerging countries who will be at the summit being hosted by George W. Bush on Nov. 14 and 15.
“There is one president at a time in the United States, so the president-elect has asked Secretary Albright and Congressman Leach, an experienced and bipartisan team, to be available to meet with and listen to our friends and allies on his behalf,” Obama's senior foreign policy adviser Denis McDonough said in a statement.
The meeting is being held to coordinate government responses to the worst financial crisis in 80 years.
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Oh, ackkkk! Whereas I am glad that Obama seems to suddenly be remembering to include WOMEN in his all-inclusive team, I'll admit I about gagged to see that he is asking Iowa's Jim Leach to represent him at this summit. Jim Leach? The guy who chaired the House banking [deregulatory] committee before Iowa citizens ousted him from office? Come on, Obama. Give us a break. I guess that's Leach's reward for endorsing Obama once the inevitable became clear. But as a point in his favor, I guess I can say he's a far better choice than if Obama had chosen some neocon fox to guard the hen house.
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